Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 798
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 22, 2003, 11:55 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2003, 11:55 AM CDT (16:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 83 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Union County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Buncombe County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
34 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 32 min |
| Jul 22, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Paulding | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 35 min |
| Jul 22, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 55 min |
| Jul 22, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union, White | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta | 59 min |
| Jul 22, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Walton | 59 min |
| Jul 22, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 28 min |
| Jul 22, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Clarke, Jackson, Madison | 56 min |
| Jul 22, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin, Hart, Stephens | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 50 min |
| Jul 22, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 2:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Yancey | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 41 min |
| Jul 22, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 3:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Monroe | 76 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2041 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 6:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Marion, Winston | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 11:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne and 8 more | 119 min |
| Jul 22, 1:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw | 6 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Washington | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clarke and 37 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Ben Hill, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke and 31 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Cabarrus and 58 more | 86 min |
| Jul 22, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Cabarrus, Chatham and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville and 14 more | 90 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.